Well we had a very successful North Central Chapter NAMA meeting here in Minneapolis and I’m now connected with more of my NAMA peeps. That’s what I like about NAMA the most – connecting with other people. Pictured here is chapter president, Josh Krenz, Land O’Lakes, getting us started. I interviewed Josh before we got started. I am very impressed …
North Central NAMA Setup
Hello from Minneapolis and the North Central NAMA Chapter meeting. We’re in the cafeteria/meeting room at Colle+McVoy. This is actually setup time. The tables being set up here are for our speed networking session which will follow my presentation on social networking. We’re going to get to know each other very well by the end of the evening. I think …
Mobile NRCS Offices
High speed mobile internet access is changing the way that NRCS offices look and work. Now they’re coming to farmers so farmers don’t have to come to them! For more than 70 years, NRCS has delivered conservation assistance to farmers, ranchers and other landowners. Now they are taking “conservation delivery” to a whole new level using kiosks in business locations …
Social Networking In Minneapolis
You know I can never get enough NAMA so I’m looking forward to the North Central Chapter meeting tomorrow at Colle+McVoy offices. Here’s the details: Social Networking: The next North Central NAMA chapter meeting will be held November 20, 4-6 p.m. at Colle+McVoy. It will include a presentation on social networking by Chuck Zimmerman of ZimmComm New Media LLC, as …
Vermeer Cob Harvester
I saw one of these bad boys at the POET Project LIBERTY field day recently although I didn’t get to speak with anyone at Vermeer about it. It is the Vermeer CCX770 Cob Harvester, a wagon-style corn cob collection system which enables farmers to harvest corn and cobs simultaneously. The Vermeer CCX770 Cob Harvester is designed to tow immediately behind …
View At Sunset
I know posting has been light but sometimes the agriblogger has to take a few days off. I’ll be back on the grid by Wednesday evening and ZimmComm will have some exciting news by the end of the week. Cindy is attending the Cellulosic Ethanol Summit in south Florida this week and may have some news for you from there. …
NAMA Professional Development Award Winners
At the NAMA Trends in Agriculture conference several professional agrimarketers were honored and once again this year, Paulsen AgriBranding captured comments from the honorees. NAMA honored three members for professional development during its Wednesday luncheon. Honored in marketing communications was Paul Redhage, FMC Communications Manager; in Public Relations, Beth Anderson, Charleston Orwig; and in sales, Vernon Benes of Beck Ag. …
NAFB Trade Talk Hectic As Usual
I think we need a couple days to get all of the Trade Talking done that we’d like to do! Cindy and I did a lot of interviews today and we’ll be using them in the coming weeks. I got to meet with one of my musical heroes this morning during the NAFB Trade Talk session. He was hanging out …
Honoring Jim Evans
This evening we honored a real friend and mentor of many of us in agricultural communications, Jim Evans. He’s seen here with the Cindy’s (l-r Cindy Zimmerman, Cyndi Young, Jim, Cindy Cunningham). A reception was held in Jim’s honor and to bring to our awareness a new “Campaign for the James F. Evans Endowed Chair in Agricultural Communications” at the …
NAFB Convention Opening Panel
With the NAMA Trends in Agriculture conference over I’ve made the permanent move to the Westin for the NAFB meeting. After a joint meeting with NAMA, the first session for NAFB was titled, “Staking Value, Lifting Tides.” Mike Adams, AgriTalk presided over the session which featured some of our good friends. You can see Bill Farmakis, J. L. Farmakis, Pat …